Betsy DeVos

A Republican nominee in Alabama that was hit by WaPo with multiple questionable allegations. Democrats despised DeVos from the day she was nominated. Confirmation is not supposed to be political, so not a single Democrat voted for her without any reason why she was morally unfit for office. She was an accomplished Woman that believed parents should have more control over school choice than government bureaucrats: that made her public enemy #1 (to the DNC). ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni Created: 2017-11-09

Fallacy

There's a fallacy on the left that the right/libertarians want to eliminate public education. This is false, the debate is only over how to pay for it, and where to run it. Should states and communities (and individuals) should be free to decide how they want to pay for and what they want to cover under public education, not the fed. That is all.

🗒️ Note:

Communist Manifesto: Plank #10 : Remember the communist manifesto's 10 planks (and the 10th plank): "Free education for all children in government schools." The point isn't that "free education" is bad -- it's the "in government schools" part that's key to understanding. The Marxists want government bureaucrats to indoctrinate and teach the kids that the state is above everything else, and they can't do that if communities get to set their own standards, or parents are free to send their kids to quality private education that might put God/Religion, or family values above the state. This of course doesn't mean that everyone who supports politicized/federalized education is a communist. But they are politically aligned for similar philosophical reasons (and it isn't the welfare of the kids: it's the welfare of their state and their agendas). http://laissez-fairerepublic.com/tenplanks.html

Student views

Students know they're supposed to hate DeVos, all their teachers told them to think that way, and they're good students (meaning they don't challenge authority and think for themselves). So they can both prattle on about how they hate DeVos, and if you ask them about views that DeVos advocates, they can agree completely with those. Unless of course they asked their teachers what to think before replying.

• https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/03/video-students-hate-betsy-devos-but-agree-with-her-policies/#more-205802

History of DOE

The DOE was 1975 under Carter. So the complete elimination, would at most revert us to the 1970's, back when test scores and graduation rates were higher (not the 19th century like many imply).

But the roots of federalized politician driven education go back to 1900 to foster a federal progressive political agenda of racism. Before that we had state and local schooling, and still mostly do. Most of what the DOE has done is politicize education, waste money, and create a special interest that's against parents and students. So why keep it?

And remember it's quality -- first they can't do one of the key things they were created for: tracking Student loans. An Obama audit showed (and the story got buried, which is why most don't know about it). Fewer than half of undergraduate borrowers at the average college are paying down their debt. That isn't the really bad part, the bad part is the Obama administration singled out Private Universities with less than 50% repayment rate to force them to add a surgeon general’s warning in all promotional materials about how this might not be a reputable institution since so few find it worthy to pay them back. They also declared that it was unfair to demand the same of public universities which often had higher default rates.

• https://www.wsj.com/articles/obamas-student-loan-fiasco-1485126310
• https://hotair.com/archives/2017/01/23/oopsie-department-of-education-cops-to-massive-math-error-on-student-loans/

Policies

Cronyism is why the left staged such an absurd tantrum over DOE appointment of DeVos (a dept that didn't even exist until 1979).

Remember history and scale. The reason the federal government got into education at all (at the turn of the 19th century) was racism: so that progressives could teach inferior Catholics (mostly Irish and Italians) about the superiority of white American Protestantism (neither were considered that). And the teachers unions are far bigger and have more money than the NRA, which the left complains controls the republicans. Well goose meet a giant prehistoric sized gander.

The reason democrats had such a fight over this is dozens of teachers unions, with billions of dollars that go into campaigns, to guarantee that parents get less choice and power over their kids education. Or as the head of the AFT (American Federation of Teachers President Albert Shanker) said,

❝ When school children start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children. ❞ American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Albert Shanker 1985 by the Meridian (Miss.) Star newspaper

Or as William McGurn, Chief Editorial Writer, Wall Street Journal, commented (paraphrased), we scoffed that the NEA was a tool of the DNC. Sealed documents show that it's the DNC that's a tool of the NEA.

Teachers have teachers interest at heart more than student interests. Just like democrats have their union patrons interest more at heart more that education/children's interests. Never forget the golden rule (he who has the gold, makes the rules. And students don't pay union dues).

• http://ceafu.org/688-2/

But she's more on target than the Obama administration was on issues like Title IX:

• https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/36728/
• http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/08/devos-campus-sexual-assault-how-to-get-it-right-215585
• https://hotair.com/archives/2017/09/22/devos-ends-obama-era-title-ix-policy-era-rule-letter/

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• https://fee.org/articles/devos-confirmed-everything-they-said-about-her-is-false/
• http://www.nationalreview.com/article/444683/betsy-devos-critics-hypocrisy-their-kids-attend-private-schools
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_DeVos
• Not a single Democrat voted for her: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-real-democratic-party-1486513439
• Most can't explain why they hate her: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-devos-apocalypse-1486597482
• Evil bitch promises to restore Due Process:
  • https://www.wsj.com/articles/devos-pledges-to-restore-due-process-1504825847
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/opinion/betsy-devos-title-iv.html
• https://www.thefire.org/education-department-says-it-will-finally-confront-its-role-in-campus-due-process-crisis/
• 29 Senators urge her to ignore Due Process: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/29-senators-sign-letter-devos-title-ix-guidelines_us_59bb1be7e4b02da0e1409bab
• She ignores those senators and does the right thing: https://hotair.com/archives/2017/09/22/devos-ends-obama-era-title-ix-policy-era-rule-letter/
• Trevor Noah takes the position of a DNC water carrier (shocking, I know): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/betsy-devos-daily-show-trevor-noah_us_58804285e4b02c1837e9c776
• Later, some of the left admit she might have a point:
  • https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-12/devos-s-right-call-on-sexual-assault
  • https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/7/14529608/betsy-devos-defense-critics-wrong-public-schools
• Her biggest crime, she might have used a private jet: https://www.facebook.com/TheHill/posts/10155294072994087

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